Debate:Working from home is cost effeicient

Andypandy
Andypandy Registered Posts: 526 Epic contributor 🐘
I just spent the last 4 hours at home sorting out some spreadsheets, but in the office this would have taken at least three days because of email & phone queries. If those of us in large organisations were given a day at home to work (getting down to business, as it were), we'd get soooo much more done & save our employers a fortune. That raises the question of should we be paid more for home-working because of much higher productvity?

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  • AK002
    AK002 Registered Posts: 2,492 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    I find i can't do work when i'm at home lol

    No motivation at all.. That's why i study at work too (after hours of course)

    Feel that the minute i get home that's me finished for the day and can relax, watch telly etc
  • mark130273
    mark130273 Registered Posts: 4,234 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    pros and cons to workoing at home . if you have the moviation to properly work at home then you can get the work done very quickly . but im sure when your sitting there and on telly is the latest thing you wanna watch it is so easy to relax and think i will start that in a min and then 6 hours later ...your still sitting there ????

    depends on your motivational skills ?
  • PGM
    PGM Registered Posts: 1,954 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    I work better from home, but only since converting the spare bedroom into an office. Need to be sat at a desk and away from a tv!
  • blobbyh
    blobbyh Registered Posts: 2,415 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    Seems half the people on this forum can't work when they're at work so can you imagine what it'd be like if they were at home?!

    Thank God for Alt+tab
  • columbia
    columbia Registered Posts: 580 Epic contributor 🐘
    My house is always so much cleaner when I am "working" at home.

    You need to be sooooooo motivated, or else you just make any excuse to do something else in-between the work, and before you know it you have watched everything you have recorded on sky+ and even daytime telly becomes an addiction.

    It's also not good for the waistline having an office so close to the kitchen!!
  • Andypandy
    Andypandy Registered Posts: 526 Epic contributor 🐘
    I get really worried that I won't have reports & stuff ready for meetings, & although I'm only at work for 3 days a week I'm stressed out 24/7. If I put an 'out of the office' notice on my emails, people just come into the office to have a root around & then I have to make some lame excuse for being unavailable. I don't mind doing my real work at home (with a bottle of wine) - at least I can relax a bit afterwards,knowing I've got something done.
  • AK002
    AK002 Registered Posts: 2,492 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    blobbyh wrote: »
    Seems half the people on this forum can't work when they're at work so can you imagine what it'd be like if they were at home?!

    Thank God for Alt+tab

    :lol::lol:

    So true..
  • Buff
    Buff Registered Posts: 275 Dedicated contributor 🦉
    I regularly try to fit a five day work load into 4 office days - which, sometimes pulls off without a hitch, but invariably I have to work from home on the other day. It's a contractual day off like, but you know how it is - leave it that day and it's doubled in size and importance come the following office work day.

    For me, I prefer to be in the office where I can easily see people face to face rather than have to contact via phone and take their word for certain things as I can't log into certain part of my apps from home.

    Also, with 2 small kids, it's difficult for me to stay fully focused when working at hoime.
  • LeeS2009
    LeeS2009 Registered Posts: 1,515 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    It seems to me most people would get work done at home if they just switched that television off :001_smile:
  • messedup89
    messedup89 Registered Posts: 1,281 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    blobbyh wrote: »
    Seems half the people on this forum can't work when they're at work so can you imagine what it'd be like if they were at home?!

    Thank God for Alt+tab

    :laugh: too right. I dont know what i'd do without those 2 little keys :lol:
  • mark130273
    mark130273 Registered Posts: 4,234 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    messedup89 wrote: »
    :laugh: too right. I dont know what i'd do without those 2 little keys :lol:

    guess whos just been using the alt tab keys !!!
  • AK002
    AK002 Registered Posts: 2,492 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    lol, i daren't go on this during working hours.. it's not worth it lol!
  • mark130273
    mark130273 Registered Posts: 4,234 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    AK002 wrote: »
    lol, i daren't go on this during working hours.. it's not worth it lol!

    scaredy cat !
  • messedup89
    messedup89 Registered Posts: 1,281 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    yup alsong as you alt+tab your good to go :D
  • AK002
    AK002 Registered Posts: 2,492 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    LOL @ Scaredy cat!

    Web access is strictly monitored in here!
  • mark130273
    mark130273 Registered Posts: 4,234 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    AK002 wrote: »
    LOL @ Scaredy cat!

    Web access is strictly monitored in here!

    ive had that at my old works when they banned vertually every site that was visited...
  • messedup89
    messedup89 Registered Posts: 1,281 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    we have that now. hotmail, facebook, gamestation.........argos at one point!
  • mark130273
    mark130273 Registered Posts: 4,234 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    messedup89 wrote: »
    we have that now. hotmail, facebook, gamestation.........argos at one point!

    mail2web..........or there is cloak ??shhh but dont tell them ?
  • Jon_1984
    Jon_1984 Registered Posts: 186 Dedicated contributor 🦉
    If I have a specific task and take all the required info home then I can generally get it done a lot quicker. If it is a new report etc. then I cant because there is no one else who knows how to extract the data. If it where just general day to day bits and pieces then I dont have the motivation.....

    Would love extra pay for it but dont think its gonna happen!
  • mark130273
    mark130273 Registered Posts: 4,234 Beyond epic contributor 🧙‍♂️
    one of those situations that would mean that you can put a feather in your cap with the bosses. wether its worth putting a feather in the cap by the bosses thats another question all together ?
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